AF 210
EX1-Raw
| Classify each of the activities above as either a unit-level, batch-level, product-level, or organization-sustaining activity. | ||||
| a | Receive raw materials from suppliers. | On Own | ||
| b | Manage parts inventories. | |||
| a | Do rough milling work on products. | |||
| b | Interview and process new employees in the personnel department. | |||
| a | Design new products. | |||
| b | Perform periodic preventive maintenance on general-use equipment. | |||
| a | Use the general factory building. | |||
| b | Issue purchase orders for a job. | |||
EX2-Raw
| The activity-based costing system that has four activity cost pools: Travel, Pickup and Delivery, Customer Service, and Other. | |||||||||||||
| Activity Measures are: Miles for Travel, Number of Pickups and Deliveries for Pickup and Delivery, and Number of Customers for Customer Service; | |||||||||||||
| the Other cost pool has no Activity Measure because it is an Organization-sustaining Activity. | |||||||||||||
| Complete the first-stage allocations of costs to activity cost pools as illustrated in Exhibit 5-6. | On Own | ||||||||||||
| Given: | Costs and Distribution of Resource Consumption (across activity pools): | ||||||||||||
| ACTIVITY COST POOLS | |||||||||||||
| Costs | Travel | Pickup/Del | Cust Service | Other | Totals | Travel | Pickup/Del | Cust Service | Other | Totals | |||
| Driver and guard wages | 720,000 | 50% | 35% | 10% | 5% | 100% | |||||||
| Vehicle operating expense | 280,000 | 70% | 5% | 0% | 25% | 100% | |||||||
| Vehicle depreciation | 120,000 | 60% | 15% | 0% | 25% | 100% | |||||||
| Cust rep salaries and expenses | 160,000 | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | 100% | |||||||
| Office expenses | 30,000 | 0% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 100% | |||||||
| Administrative expenses | 320,000 | 0% | 5% | 60% | 35% | 100% | |||||||
| Total cost | 1,630,000 | Total: | |||||||||||
| ~ Alternatively ~ | |||||||||||||
| (this is the disply arrangement in EX3) | |||||||||||||
| Driver and guard wages | Vehicle operating expense | Vehicle depreciation | Cust rep salaries and expenses | Office expenses | Administrative expenses | Total | |||||||
| Travel | |||||||||||||
| Pickup/Del | |||||||||||||
| Cust Service | |||||||||||||
| Other | |||||||||||||
| Totals | |||||||||||||
EX3-Raw
| Costs are driven by the Size of Lawns, the Size of Garden Beds, the Travel Distance, and the Number of Customers. | ||||||||
| Additionally, maintaining Garden Beds is further categorized as Low Maintenance or High Maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants) | ||||||||
| The company already has completed its first-stage allocations of costs and has summarized its annual costs and activity as follows: | ||||||||
| Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools. | ||||||||
| On Own | ||||||||
| Given: | YEARLY | PER UNIT | ||||||
| Activity Cost Pool | Est OH | Exp Activity | Act Rate | |||||
| Caring for lawn | 72,000 | 150,000 | square feet of lawn | |||||
| Caring for garden beds–low maintenance | 26,400 | 20,000 | square feet of low maintenance beds | |||||
| Caring for garden beds–high maintenance | 41,400 | 15,000 | square feet of high maintenance beds | |||||
| Travel to jobs | 3,250 | 12,500 | miles | |||||
| Customer billing and service | 8,750 | 25 | customers | |||||
EX4-Raw
| See the following six activity cost pools and activity rates: | ||||||||||
| How much total overhead cost would be assigned to K425 and M67 using the activity-based costing system? | ||||||||||
| Given: | EXP ACTIVITY | per/unit | TOT OVERHEAD | On Own | ||||||
| K425 | M67 | Rates | K425 | M67 | ||||||
| Direct labor-hours | 80 | 500 | 6 | direct labor-hours | ||||||
| Machine-hours | 100 | 1,500 | 4 | machine-hours | ||||||
| Machine setups | 1 | 4 | 50 | setups | ||||||
| Production orders | 1 | 4 | 90 | orders | ||||||
| Shipments | 1 | 10 | 14 | shipments | ||||||
| Product sustaining | 1 | 1 | 840 | products | ||||||
| Number of units produced per year | 200 | 2,000 | ||||||||
EX5-Raw
| Re. the Standard and Custom models, the following activity cost pools and activity rates are provided: | |||||||||
| Given: | Activity Cost Pool | Rate | |||||||
| Supporting direct labor | 26 | per direct labor-hour | |||||||
| Order processing | 284 | per order | |||||||
| Custom design processing | 186 | per custom design | |||||||
| Customer service | 379 | per customer | |||||||
| 19.50 | Direct Labor Rate/Hour | ||||||||
| Management would like an analysis of the profitability of a particular customer, Big Sky Outfitters, which has ordered the following products over the last 12 months: | |||||||||
| Compute the Customer Margin. | |||||||||
| Standard | Custom | Std Costs | Std Rev | Cust Costs | Cust Rev | ||||
| Number of gliders | 20 | 3 | |||||||
| Number of orders | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Number of custom designs | - 0 | 3 | |||||||
| Direct labor-hours per glider | 26 | 28 | |||||||
| Direct Wages | |||||||||
| Supp Dir Labor | |||||||||
| Selling price per glider | 1,850 | 2,400 | |||||||
| Direct materials cost per glider | 564 | 634 | |||||||
| Individual Contributions: | |||||||||
| Subtotal: | |||||||||
| minus Cust Service: | |||||||||
| Total Customer Margin: | |||||||||
EX6-Raw
| Classify each of the activities above as either a unit-level, batch-level, product-level, customer-level, or organization-sustaining activity. | ||||
| An order to duplicate a particular CD is a product-level activity. | ||||
| Assume the order is large enough that it must be broken down into batches. | On Own | |||
| Sales representatives’ periodic visits to customers. | ||||
| Ordering labels from the printer for a particular CD. | ||||
| Setting up the CD duplicating machine to make copies from a master CD. | ||||
| Loading the automatic labeling machine with labels for a particular CD. | ||||
| Visually inspecting CDs and placing them by hand into protective plastic cases. | ||||
| Preparation of the shipping documents for the order. | ||||
| Periodic maintenance of equipment. | ||||
| Lighting and heating the company’s production facility. | ||||
| Preparation of quarterly financial reports. | ||||
EX7-Raw
| There is concern about the costs of handling routine transactions across branches. More specifically, to determine: | ||||||||||||
| the cost of opening an account, the cost of processing deposits and withdrawals, and the cost of processing other customer transactions. | ||||||||||||
| Prepare the first-stage allocation for the activity-based costing study. (See Exhibit 5–6 for an example of a first-stage allocation.) | ||||||||||||
| Westfield branch of Security Home Bank cost data and est dist of labor across activities for last year: | On Own | |||||||||||
EX8-Raw
| ...EX7 CONTINUED | ||||||||||||
| The following data concerning the transactions of the branch during the past year: | ||||||||||||
| Using the first-stage allocation from Exercise 5–7 and the data below, compute the activity rates for the activity-based costing system. (Use Exhibit 5–7 as a guide.) | ||||||||||||
| YEARLY | (from EX7) | PER UNIT | ||||||||||
| Given: | Activity | Westfield | Tot Cost | Act Rate | On Own | |||||||
| Opening accounts | 500 | new accounts opened | ||||||||||
| Processing deposits and withdrawals | 100,000 | deposits and withdrawals processed | ||||||||||
| Processing other customer transactions | 5,000 | other customer transactions processed | ||||||||||
| The lowest costs reported by other branches for these activities are displayed below: | ||||||||||||
| Activity | Lowest Cost among All Security Home Bank Branches | |||||||||||
| Opening accounts | 26.75 | per new account | ||||||||||
| Processing deposits and withdrawals | 1.24 | per deposit or withdrawal | ||||||||||
| Processing other customer transactions | 11.86 | per other customer transaction | ||||||||||
| What do these results suggest to you concerning operations at the Westfield branch? | ||||||||||||
EX9-Raw
| Four activity cost pools are listed below: | |||||||||
| Determine the cost of a recent order (1 customer) which required 200 direct labor-hours, 4 hours of product testing, and 2 sales calls. | |||||||||
| What is the total overhead cost assigned to the order for heavy-duty trailer axles? | |||||||||
| On Own | |||||||||